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Definition of provision verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

provision

verb
 
/prəˈvɪʒn/
 
/prəˈvɪʒn/
[often passive] (formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they provision
 
/prəˈvɪʒn/
 
/prəˈvɪʒn/
he / she / it provisions
 
/prəˈvɪʒnz/
 
/prəˈvɪʒnz/
past simple provisioned
 
/prəˈvɪʒnd/
 
/prəˈvɪʒnd/
past participle provisioned
 
/prəˈvɪʒnd/
 
/prəˈvɪʒnd/
-ing form provisioning
 
/prəˈvɪʒnɪŋ/
 
/prəˈvɪʒnɪŋ/
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  1. provision somebody/something (with something) to supply somebody/something with enough of something, especially food, to last for a particular period of time
    • The main business of the port is to provision passing ocean liners.
    Word Originlate Middle English (also in the sense ‘foresight’): via Old French from Latin provisio(n-), from providere ‘foresee, attend to’, from pro- ‘before’ + videre ‘to see’. The verb dates from the early 19th cent.
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